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F0REI0N RELATIONS COMMITTEE
TAKES RESOLUTION IN HAND.
FACTS WILL NCW BE REVEALED.
•Republican Members of Committee Want
to Handle tiie Matter Cautiously,
Owing to Its Seriousness.
A Washington special says: The
committee on foreign relations did not
conclude its consideration of the Cu¬
ban resolution Wednesday.
The sub committee was unable to go
through all the reports that have been
received from Consul General Lee and
other consuls and officers in Cuba.
It is possible that Senator Morgan
■will consent to have the resolution
now pending in the senate to go over
without prejudice until the committee
can make its report.
It is intended that all the reports of
consuls shall be sent to the senate,
but the senate committee will select
certain documents bearing on tbe con¬
dition of affairs in the island and on
these make its recommendations and
report.
This report will generalize the situ¬
ation without making public such
matters as the state department offi¬
cials and the committee think would
be prejudicial to persons on the
island.
One member of the committee, who
bad listened to the summary of the re¬
ports in the department, said that a
very serious condition existed in
Cuba, and that the inquiry now being
made by the committee would result
in bringing to light the exact facts.
Some strictures were passed upon
members of the foreign relations com¬
mittee, who about a year ago voted for
a resolution similar to the one pend¬
ing, and who now ask for time to con-
eider the matter with more delibera¬
tion.
Speaking of this criticism, Chairman
Davis, of the foreign relations com¬
mittee, said:
“At the time the former resolution
was reported, Gomez was at the head
of a large army in the eastern end of
the island, and Maceo was at the head
of another army in the west. They
could march from one end of Cuba to
the other. Campos had been defeated
in a great battle and was shut up with¬
in solid fortifications and confined to
a small territory around Havana.
“Everyone knew that a state of war
existed. That was a year ago. Great
changes have taken place. Maceo is
dead, and his army dispersed. Gomez
is at the head of but a small force, cer¬
tainly it is no such army as was re¬
ported then. There are conflicting
statements as to the strength of tbe
insurgents and the control which Spain
lias over the island. *It is right and
proper that the facts that have since
reached the state department should
be laid before the senate and the com¬
mittee so that intelligent action can be
bad.”
Mr. Davis says the sympathy with
the struggling Cubans is as great as
ever.
The republicans of the committee
do not feel justified in pushing the
administration until it has had time
. to act. It has been pointed Out that
only two months have elapsed since
tbe administration came into power,
and it has scarcely had time to take
up and consider so important a matter
as that which has been presented.
The pending resolution, unlike a
joint resolution, will require the execu¬
tive either to approve or disapprove
of it.
This being the case, the republican
senators feel that they should act in
concert with the president. It is not
believed that in case the senate foreign
relations committee fipd, upon a
thorough examination of the reports
in the state department that the reso¬
lution is justified, that any effort will
bo made to prevent its passage.
Members of tbe committee on for¬
eign relations feel that the question
•which confronts the senate is serious,
and any action that is taken by the
senate will have great weight with the
administration. In case the resolution
should pass both senate and house,
there is no reason to believe it would
not be approved, and that the United
States government would thereafter
conduct ifself on the lines which it
lays down.
CAPTAIN RICE GOES TO JAPAN.
He Will He United States Military Attache
at Tokio..
Colonel Buck, of Georgia, the newly
appointed minister to Japan, called at
the war department at Washington
Wednesday and secured from Secrerary
Alger tho promise that Captain Edmund
Rice, of the fifth infantry, now station¬
ed at Fort McPherson, near Atlanta,
should be detailed as United States
military attache at the United States
legation at Tokio, Japan. An or¬
der was made out later in the day.
This was the post formerly held by
Xiieutenant O’Brien, also of the fifth
infantry, during the war between
China and Japan.
VICTIMS OF POISONED WATER.
Three More Persons Die From Drinking
From the Spring.
Three more persons died Wednesday
morning from drinking poisoned spring
■water at Pikeville, Tenn. They are:
Edward Minnix, Miss Dorcas Alberts
and John Tompkins.
Tompkins’ wife and two children are
fatally ill from the same cause. As yet
chemists have failed to learn what
poison is being used, and there is no
clew to the identity of the guilty par¬
ties.
WATSON ASKED FOR MISTRIAL.
A I.lvely Tilt During Argument iu the
Cooper Trial at. EaGtange.
The argument in the Cooper murder
case, at LaGrange, Ga., Wednesday,
was the occasion of a lively tilt be¬
tween Judge Longley of the prosecu¬
tion and Tom Watson, leading counsel
for the defense.
Judge Longley told the jury that
“When Watson asked for ten or fif¬
teen minutes’ time on Tuesday as the
state closed, that he might save the
court several hours if allowed that
time for consultation, you saw Cooper
and his counsel go upstairs. It was
up there where the defendant’s state¬
ment was arranged, and he was drilled
as to what to say.”
Watson spraug to his feet like a
flash, dramatically exclaiming:
“You've got no right to say that,
and I ask the court to stop you aud re¬
buke you and order a mistrial. In
point of fact, what you state is not the
truth."
Judge Longley retracted what he
said, begged Colonel Watson’s pardon,
and peace reigned again, but not for a
great while. As Watson sat down he
exclaimed:
“Hang my client if you can legally,
but not illegally.”
In a very few minutes afterwards
Judge Longley said:
“Gentlemen of the jury, I want to
say right here to you—and as for that
matter, before these ladies, too—this
kissing business has been going on for
a long time, and it’s going to continue,
and if people have to be killed for it,
you had as well commence with Tom
Watson.”
MORGAN’S CUBAN RESOLUTION.
Senator Says No Agreement as to Refer¬
ence Has Been Reached.
In the senate Wednesday the sugar
investigation of 1894 was recalled by
the introduction of a resolution by Mr.
Allen reciting the circumstances of
the investigation.
Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, made a
statement relative to his resolution on
Cuba. He said the committee on for¬
eign relations, at a meeting during the
day, had considered the question of
referring the resolution to the commit¬
tee and had not reached an agreement.
A resolution by Mr. Butler, popu¬
list, of North Carolina, asking the pres¬
ident for information relative to the
sale of the Union Pacific railroad, was
presented and went over. The senate
then took up the calendar and passed
a number of bills.
NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED.
They Were Servants In the Unfortunate
Kelley Household.
As a sequel to the recent poisoning
cases in the Kelley family at Jeff, Ala.,
the bodies of Mollie Smith and Mandy
Franks, negro girl servants in the
Kelley household, were found swing¬
ing by ropes from trees on tbe side of
the road leading from Jeff, Ala., to
Huntsville, Wednesday morning.
The lynching was clone at an early
hour by a mob of about twenty men.
The girls were suspected of poisoning
the family of Joshua Kelley at Jeff.
Mollie Smith was arrested while
making her way across the Tennessee
line, and Mandy Franks was captured
at home. The latter is said to have
made a confession.
COAL COMBINE ANNOUNCED.
New Company Will Buy the Output of
Jellico Mines.
At the conclusion of the four days’
session of the coal operators of the
Jelico district, at Jellico, Wednesday,
one of the largest coal combines ever
known in Tennessee was announced.
The Southern Jellico Coal company,
along with several other companies, go
out of business and a new company
with Russell A. Clapp, president, was
organized.
The purpose of the Jellico Coal com¬
pany, limited, will be to buy the en¬
tire output of all the mines in the Jel¬
lico district.
Next week the miners and operators
will hold a conference at which time
a scale will be agreed upon for the next
year.
MUMPRRElTRl bbS IURNED DOWN
Illinois Legislature .Stops Gigantic Street
Railway Steal.
The Humphrey hills, extending the
franchises of all street railways in Illi¬
nois fifty years, and .vesting the con¬
trol of existing lines and new fran¬
chises in the boards of commissioners
instead of the aldermen of the various
cities, were killed in the Illinois legis¬
lature Wednesday.
SUGAR MEN TO BE TRIED.
Officers of Refining Company Refused To
Answer Questions.
President Havemeyer and Secretary
Searles, of the American Sugar Refining
Company, will be tried at Washington
on the 17th of this month for refusing
to answer questions put by the senate
sugar trust investigating committee.
Appointment of Vancott Confirmed.
The senate in executive session Wed¬
nesday confirmed Cornelius Vancott
to be postmaster at New York.
Forsyth a Major General.
President McKinley has nominated
Brigadier General James W. Forsyth
to be major general.
MINERS KILLED BY GAS.
Two Unfortunates are Found Dead at Bot¬
tom of tlie Shaft.
The bodies of Adam Snyder and
Barney Rider were found at the bottom
of the Zincore mine on the Raub farm
near Oxford, N. J., early Wednesday
morning.
The men had been employed by pros¬
pectors and went to work the evening
before. At 10 o’clock p. m. they were
hoisted from the mine and after taking
their lunch returned to their work.
That was the last seen of them alive.
MR. SIMPSON ASKED TO KNOW
“WHERE HE WAS AT.”
TILLMAN DEMANDS INVESTIGATION
South Carolinian Throws Hot Shot at
“Speculating” Senators—Charges
of Bribery.
The Indian appropriation bill was
disposed of by the house Thursday
with the exception of the provision for
opening the Utah Gilsonite lands,
which was postponed until Monday.
The conference report which estab¬
lishes and Indian warehouse at Omaha,
ratifies the least of the Seneca oil lands
and adds one judge to the Indian Ter¬
ritory courts, was adopted by a vote of
54 to 47.
Nearly two hours was consumed in
prsliamentary squabble on the point
raised by Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, that
the rule for semi-weekly sessions was
in violation of the constitution.
Mr. Simpson, populist, of Kansas,
endeavored to renew his attack upon
the speaker for failing to appoint com¬
mittees and censured the republicans
for not mustering a quorum. He was
declaring that there were more demo¬
crats and populists than republicans
present when the speaker sustained
the point that he was out of order.
“I have been in doubt whether I
had any rights in this house lately,”
Mr. Simpson shouted, when he was j
compelled to take his seat under the
rule.
Mr. Payne, republican, of New
York, to him called the Kansas Mr. Simpson member to said: order and j
“The speaker recognizes that you
will do his bidding and you will get a
good place on a committee all right.
I know that there is a good deal of
anxiety on that point among the re¬
publicans.”
This taunt moved Mr. Dingley and
Mr. W. A. Stone, republican, of Penn¬
sylvania, to call Mr. Simpson to order.
The question whether Mr. Simpson
should be permitted to proceed in
order was put to the house. Many
republicans voted no, while others re¬
frained from voting.
Simpson was given the floor by a
vote of 80 to 57. When he again pro¬
ceeded, however, the speaker declared
his remarks to be out of order and
called upon him to desist.
Several democrats protested against
Mr. Simpson’s being taken from the
floor. In explanation Mr. Reed said:
“The chair submits to the house that
criticisms of what the chair did at some
past time are not in order, not that the
chair is above criticism or above at¬
tack, but because the speaker is the
speaker of the house and such attacks
are not conducive to order, The
speaker cannot reply to them except
in a fragmentary manner, and it is not
desirable that reply be made. If any
objection is to be made to the speak¬
er’s conduct, it can be made at the
time and direct.”
There was some filibustering, after
which the houso decided that Mr.
Simpson could not speak, whereupon
he appealed to the chair to be inform¬
ed “where am I at?”
“The chair has never been able to
find any one who knew that,” -was the
reply.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
made a sensational speech in the sen¬
ate Thursday in the course of the de¬
bate on bringing Chapman before the
bar of the senate.
He said the senate should not go af¬
ter Chapman,but should learn whether
senators speculated in sugar stock.
There were published charges, he
said, that senators speculated in sugar
stock within the last week. Instead
of looking to Chapman, he said the
senate might better call on Havemeyer
and the other sugar trust magnates.
Referring to the last investigation, he
said:
“We want to know whether our
committee was bought and punish
them and the men who bought them. ”
The senate decided that when it ad¬
journed it be till Monday, and tben
entered on a discussion of Senator Al¬
len’s Chapman resolution.
The discussion ranged from a dry
legal argument to the sensational out¬
burst from Mi-. Tillman, mentioned
above.
At 2 o’clock the Morgan Cuban res¬
olution went over until Monday.
PORTER REACHES PARIS.
American Ambassador Is Welcomed by
American Colony.
General Horace Porter, the American
ambassador to France, arrived at Paris
Thursday. He was received by promi-
nent members of the American col-
ony, among them General Winslow, |
with whom he will temporarily reside,
Gomez Won’t Attack Havana. I
A special from i
Havana says: There
is no truth in the report that this city
is excited by rumors of an intended
attack by General Gomez. Nor have
the forts been regarrisoned. He is
now in the eastern part of the province
of Puerto Principe and has not come
westward.
LAST STRONGHOLD CAPTURED.
The Spaniard. Claim Complete Success in
Philippine Islands.
Captain General Weyler has received
advices from the Spanish minister of
war, General Azcarraga, saying the
Spaniards have captured the last
stronghold of the insurgents at Cavite,
lieved Philipine islands, and that it is be-
the military authorities will
soon be able to send home tho s ck and
disabled and that no further reinforce-
ments will be required.
LIVELY IN KENlUtr^ENATE.
Silver Democrats Outgone! s rusionists
And Much Profanity ted.
A wild scene occurred he lven-
tucky state senate FridjEf ^It w as
over an attempt of the fjjSeM^ for ugh la¬
ocrats and republicans putting to
a bill providing for devices ot^t. — fliua
under •'^“'dlocr^, two different ^tate
«»
minority,out-geueraled the oppmition,
got one of their number, Saiotor
Goebel, in the chair, pending
peal and adjourned the senate. r^k
appeal was from the ruling of the
ular republican president, who counm
ed a quorum present, though
voting. The majority refused to stand i
adjourned on the announcement of the
pro tem. speaker. urged
President Worthington “Falsehood’’and was
back into the chair.
“indecency” were words hurled be-
tween Stephen and Goebel, who seem-
ed to be about to draw weapons.
The men. had to get between the
president and Bronston, but the pres¬
ident finally declared the senate ad¬
journed, because the democratic clerks,
who left on the first announcement of
adjournment, “wouldn’t do their du¬
ty,” as he expressed it.
The fight from this on will be
against any quorum till the end of
the session, and if the president again
counts a quorum trouble is expected.
IS FOR CUBA LIBRE.
A. P. A. Adopt. involutions Indorsing
Senator Morgan’s Attitude.
The supreme council of the Ameri¬
can Protective Association in session
at Washington adopted resolutions in¬
dorsing the attitude of Senator Mor¬
gan, of Alabama, on the Cuban ques¬
tion and denouncing Senator Vest, of
Missouri, for assertions that teachers
in the Indian service are broken down
preachers aud teachers, to whom the
Catholic priests were far superior.
The resolution, based on the reports
of committees appointed to consider
the action of the executive board by
Whom the declarations were drafted,
were adopted unanimously.
The Vest resolution called on the
senate to impeach Mr. Vest on the
allegation that he is not truly Ameri¬
can in his views.
Copies of these measures were sent
to all persons directly interested.
The supreme council made a number
of alterations in the constitution of
the association.
The president’s salary was increased
to $3,000 and that of the secretary to
$ 2 , 000 .
It was decided to organize an insur¬
ance feature to the order and the work
of putting it into practical operation
was left to the executive board.
After listening to a number of ad¬
dresses on the work of the order, the
council adjourned to meet in Washing¬
ton again next year.
MAY SATE DURRANI’S' NECK.
Russian Sailor Confesses That He Mur¬
dered Blanche Lament.
A San Francisco dispatch says:
Theodore Durrant, through his at¬
torneys, has asked Governor Budd to
pardon him on the ground that the
real murderer of Blanche Lamont has
at last confessed his crime.
The lawyers declare that they have
not been hoaxed, nor is it their pur¬
pose to impose upon the executive.
They insist that in the person of John
Rosenberg, a convict at San Quentin
prison, they have discovered the man
who is guilty of the horrors of the
Emanuel church.
John Rosenberg has made a sworn
confession before a notary public and
in the presence of several witnesses
that he killed Blanche Lamont at the
instigation of a stranger and in con¬
sideration of the payment of $700 for
his bloody work.
Rosenberg is a Russian sailor and
arrived in this city on a sailing vessel
from Hamburg, Germany, during the
last week of March, 1895, or on the 1st
day of April.
He is now serving a term for horse
stealing and appears to be sane.
COOPER ESCAPES GALLOWS.
Jury Returns a Verdict of Voluntary Man¬
slaughter Against the Young Man.
The result of the Cooper murder
trial at LaGrange, Ga., was a verdict
of voluntary manslaughter.
Only the pronouncing of the sen¬
tence by Judge Harris is wanting to
make Douglas Cooper a convict and to
dispose of, for the present at least, a
celebrated case.
“JERSEY LILY” GETS DIVORCE.
Decree Giving Her Freedom Rendered
In a California Court.
Emilie Charlotte Langtry, better
known throughout the two hemispheres
as the “Jersey Lily,” has secured a
divorce frow her English husband,
The decree that gives her her much-
sought freedom from matrimonial fet-
ters was signed at Lakeport, Cal., Fri-
day by Judge W. R. Crump. It was
all done quietly, a default being en-
tered against the foreign defendant,
who had failed to file a defense in the
time allowed by the California code.
While all the legal formalities were
complied with, no one except those ac¬
tually interested in the delicate matter
were present.
MANY SOLDIERS KILLED.
Sixteen Cars Wrecked in Russia With Ter¬
ribly Fatal Results.
Advices from St. Petersburg state
that terrible . railway . disaster . . befell . ,, a
a
military train Friday evening between
Bocke'ihof and Eliva, on the Valki-
Jurjev iine.
Sixteen cars were Smashed. Two
officers and nearly one hundred soldiers
were killed and silt Y others seriously
injured.
ELECTED SENATOR BY THE FLOR-
IDA STATE LEGISLATURE.
SODDEN END OF EXCITING CONTEST
_
Opposition to Chipley Combine on the
Ex-Congressman—The Contest Closed
With the Twenty-Firth Ballot.
, -
^-Congressman _ Stephen
- • •
Mailory, of Pensacola, was elected
Uni ted States senator by the Florida
legislature Friday, the vote on the
tv fifth ballot of the coll t e8 t that
-April 20th standing: ^ Mallory,
53; W D. Chipley, 44; Wilkinson
Call, 1,
Chiplty came so near election Thurs¬
day, lacking only three votes, while
the oppiAiti.-u was divided among
four candl^es, that the leaders of
the the forces followrk. J^ustile to him, consisting of
of the Call, Stockton
Hooker, realizedVhat andWne of Haney’s adher¬
ents, if they should let
another day p,. without combining
their surely entire win. stfijgth, Chipley would
A caucus in t senate chamber
Thursday night weY Yas the outcome.
Several ballots candidaY) taken, in which
the leading were Mallory,
Baney and IIockerY Finally, at 2
o’clock Friday agreementVpon mornYg, the caucus
came to an Mallory.
Upon the meeting of caucYlate, Ye joint assem¬
bly at noon, a new ballVing for the
first time since the began,
was brought into the conVst \eeek. without
a preliminary nominating Yacked •
When the last name was on
the roll call the vote stood:Yhipley, nameAhaving
49; Mallory, 47; two \
been passed.
Representative Morgan, win had
previously supported Chipley, and
who had not yet voted, then gave his
ballot to Mallory. Representative
Rawls, who was paired next, broke Vis
pair, as he claimed he was authorized
to do under the existing circumstances,
and threw his vote also for Mallory.
This made the result a tie.
Pandemonium prevailed for a time,
the partisans of both candidates jump¬
ing upon the desks and chairs and
waving their arms frantically in efforts
to make themselves heard.
At length Senator Barber was recog¬
nized and he changed his vote from
Chipley to Mallory.
Three others followed suit, the vote
was verified, as stated above, and
President Perrenot formally declared
Stephen H. Mallory elected.
Senator Mallory spoke before a large
gathering in the house of representa¬
tives tonight. r*-
He said that he endorsed all of Vhe
planks of the Chicago platform, dwell¬
ing particularly on the financial ques¬
tion, and advocating the free coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, regard¬
less of foreign countries. He did not
express decided views on the tariff
question.
Mallory was a member of the fifty-
second and fifty-third congresses from
the first Florida district. He lives in
Pensacola, where he was born in 1848.
He entered the Confederate army in
Virginia in the fall of 1864 and later
served as a midshipman in the Con¬
federate navy.
After the war he entered George¬
town college, District of Columbia,
and after graduation taught school
and studied law. In 1894 he returned
to Pensacola and since then has prac¬
ticed law in Florida and also been in¬
terested actively in politics, serving in
both branches of the state legislature,
besides the national house of repre¬
sentatives, where he was a leading
member of the committee on com¬
merce.
Senator-elect Mallory is a son of the
late Stephen R. Mallory who was sec¬
retary of the navy in the confederate
cabinet.
His distinguished father was born
in Nassau about 1810 and removed to
Key West, Fla., when quite young.
The eldqr Mallory was the senator
from Florida during several terms.
During the war he refugeed to La-
Grange, Ga., where he was arrested as
a state prisoner. He was released on
parole and afterwards pardoned by
President Johnson. He died in Pen¬
sacola in 1873.
ROBBERS LOOT TRAIN.
Dynamited Two Safes and Secured About
810 , 000 .
The westbound Southern Pacific
passenger train was held up by three
masked men and robbed about 250
miles west of San Antonio, Texas, early
Friday morning.
After forcing the doors of the ex¬
press car, one of the robbers entered
and dynamited the two safes of the
Wells Fargo Express company.
Both the through and the local safes
were opened and their contents se¬
cured. The local safe contained $2,000
or $3,000. The amount secured from
the through safe is unknown, but it
is believed will not fail telow $7,000
or $8,000.
TURKEY IS STUBBORN.
She May Be Forced to Relent By the
Powers at Cannon’s Mouth,
A cable dispatch of Friday from
London says: The proposed negotia¬
tions for peace between Greece and
Turkey are not proceeding as smoothly
as the European powers would like to
see. The fa.ct is, there is grave fear
in diplomatic circles that the Sultan
will prove-stiff-necked and that he will
resist all serious attempts at European
control.
i BIMETALLIC COMMITTEE MEETS.
Committee of House of Commons Discusses
the Question.
There was a meeting at London,
Thursday, of the bimetallic parlia¬
mentary committee of the house of
commons. Apart from the members
of parliament,there were several prom¬
inent bimetallists and well known
'’SSlmS"V„,o.»-
servative, who was the delegate of
Great Britain to the monetary confer-
ence at Brussels in 1892, presided. He
referred in his address upon the open-
ing of the meeting, to the growth of
bimetallic opinion in England and
other countries and pointed to the
f ac t that the special commissioners of
the United States were now on their
way to France to confer with the
bimetallists of that country.
The chairman also expressed his
opinion in strong terms that the pros¬
pects of an early international agree¬
ment were never more hopeful.
The committee decided to closely
watch the international negotiations
and held itself ready to actively co-op¬
erate in them.
MANY BIBLES DISTRIBUTED.
Nearly All of Them Sent to Mexico, Cen¬
tral and South America.
The eighty-first annual report of tho
American Bible Society was presented
to its managers at its annual Bible
house meeting at New York Thursday
afternoon.
It showed that the receipts for be¬
nevolent work, including gifts from
auxiliaries, were $188,377 and disburse¬
ments for benevolent work were $265,-
668. The total gifts of the living were
$58,880. Never before, with a single
exception, have so many volumes of
the Bible been sent from the Bible
house for one year to foreign countries.
The entire number is 101,354 and
seven-eigths of them went to Mexioo,
Central and South America.
BANK WILL LIQUIDATE.
The Atlanta Trust and Banking; Company
Will Discontinue Deposit Branch.
The Atlanta Trust and Banking
Company, which has for years stood
among the foremost of the banks of
deposit in Atlanta, Ga., has definitely
determined to discontinue the deposit
branch of their business and has issued
notice to all their depositors to with¬
draw their funds.
This will be a great surprise to the
commercial world, and especially to
the patrons who have dealt with the
bank since it first commenced busi¬
ness.
Ample cash funds have been pro¬
vided to pay off all depositors upon
demand, and all cash balances will
probably be transferred by depositors
to other local banks.
SECOND LYNCHING AT JEFF.
Victim Su-ppoKiMl fco Have Keen Connected
With I^illy Poisoning:.
A third" negro is reported to have
been lynched near Jeff, Ala., Thursday
night. It is supposed that he was im¬
plicated in the wholesale poisoning of
the Kelly family.
The latest victim of mob violence is
Jim. Nance, alias Williams, a discharg¬
ed laborer, who is said to have insti¬
gated the poisoning in order to wreak
vengeance on the Kelly’s.
The coroner returned a verdict in
the case of the two lynched girls of
death at the hands of unknown parties.
POWDER MILLS EXPLODE.
Three Men Who Were in the Building
Were Hurt, One Fatally.
There was an explosion at the pow¬
der mills of the A. L. Due Fireworks
company at Reading, Ohio, Thursday
afternoon.
Samuel Cherboli was fatally injured.
Frank Moore and George Buckenbruck
were slightly injured. These three
men were the only ones in the build¬
ing when the explosion occurred. The
loss was only $300.
PLAGUE KILLS THOUSANDS.
Half of Population in Cutchmandvi Dis¬
trict, India, Has Fled.
A dispatch to The London Daily
Mail from Bombay says that the bu¬
bonic plague is making fearful ravages
in the Cutchmandvi district, where
there have been 2,000 deaths iu a fort¬
night. Half the population has fled.
SEVEN KILLED IN MINE.
Thursday afternoon, at the Pinkney,
Tenn., ore mines, seven men were
killed and several badly wounded.
Communication with Pinkney is cut
off, and full particulars cannot be bad.
MANY FAILURES IN BRAZIL.
That Country Shown to Be In a Bad Con¬
dition Financially.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Buenos Ayres says:
* ‘The Herald’s correspondent in Rio
Janeiro, Brazil, telegraphs that the
failures of several big companies have
been announced and that business is
paralyzed. Brazil
“The government of has
been forced by the crisis to increase
her duties by one-tenth and to levy a
heavier tax on the postal and telegraph
service. In addition $7,000,000 has
been saved to the government by judi¬
cious trimming of national expenses.
STRAW-BOARD TRUST.
Manufacturers Have a Secret Session in
Cleveland, Ohio.
The straw-board manufacturers of
the United States held a secret meet¬
ing at Cleveland, O., formed Thursday and,
according to reports, a trust to
control the product of the country,
though no definite information conld
be obtained from them.
Representatives of Binghampton, firms in Cincin¬
nati, Covington and N.
Y., were present.